This introductory ticket and sampling of the first three sessions of Andrew J. Galambos’ revolutionary Sic Itur Ad Astra is intended for intelligent persons who care about the future of the human species. These three sessions will sensitize you to the crises presently confronting mankind, the alternatives for civilization and the consequences to be expected, the inadequacy of the present techniques to cope with these crises, and the new approach to freedom. You’ll be inspired to master all fifteen volumes of Sic Itur Ad Astra—for without the knowledge and principles contained in these volumes no man can build a life for himself or help to build the world of freedom to come.
— William W. Martin Literary Executor of Andrew J. Galambos
Anne –
There are two reasons you should read this book. One is for yourself—and the information will change your life for better. Many people claim that it was worth more than their university education. And most readers think it probably holds the key to the survival of humanity itself. Bold assertions. If you aren’t curious, don’t bother. If you are curious, you’ll never think the same way again.
It’s about property of all kinds and the protection of it. It’s about property as the fundamental basis for morality. The most fantastic thing in history is how come in 6,000 years of recorded history no one ever questionede whether coercion can accomplish any profitable purpose or produce any useful result? People like Etienne de la Boetie said 450 years ago the reason why tyrants have control over us is simply because we let them. And Thomas Paine led the American Revolution by explaining (in Common sense) to 300,000 Americans why they didn’t need a king anymore.
So, we don’t need a king. We still have many, many coercive bureaucrats, and the philosophical problem and loss of individual freedom still remains. It’s called HOBSON’S CHOICE. Politics just doesn’t work. Actually, it can’t! If you start off going the wrong way, you’ll not get to where you wanted to go. What’s the alternative?
Coercion is the problem. It may not seem so, but your property is under attack at all times. A few folks realize that with property taxes ever due, you’ll never really own your own home free and clear, and that ‘service’ you don’t want or need will be bought and paid for even if you never use them. Galambos defined coercion as the attempted, intentional interference with the property of another. Galambos went on to point out that semantic precision was essential in physics and it should also be essential in the social domain. Force and mass actually mean something in physics; and property and coercion also have definitions, but in the current world they are wishy-washy ones which only lead to misunderstandings, animosity, and even world wars.
How many times do we hear the words ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ thrown around by politicians, teachers, so-called social experts and newscasters? How about the words ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ or ‘justice?’ One thousand people and you will have one thousand wobbly definitions that go nowhere and mean nothing. Galambos describes scientists who demand semantic precision in their word but fall prey to the same semantic imprecision as everyone else when it comes to ‘social sciences.’ They supposedly don’t live for money, but instead for ‘science’ while they create weapons that can kill millions biologically or with a bomb blast where the crater is 20 miles wide (the Cara bomb). They ironically leave the ‘morality’ of such mass murder in the hands of the state (what most people call the government). What kind of world have be built here?
Coercion by force or fraud rules the day. it’s expected. It’s excused. It is encouraged. We need to develop new social behaviors based on property protection—on what is moral, rational thus will work. It is said that the measure of a person is what they put up with. It is time we stopped putting up with nicely dressed but savage people making the rules and living well on. our dime. Enough is enough. That’s why you should read this book.
Spaceland Publications has again done a great job of making Galambos’ lectures available as originally presented to live audiences, word for word, easy to read with an excellent table of contents and an amazingly thorough index to find any topic in seconds. If you’re curious and want new and correct thinking about freedom itself, and not must acceptance of the political state or more drivel about which political party is best, this book is for you. YOU MIGHT THEN WANT TO READ THE ENTIRE 15 VOLUME LECTURE SERIES, WITH MANY MORE EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE IDEAS, ALSO FROM SPACELAND PULICATIONS.